Storm And Stress - Under Thunder and Fluorescent Lights (re-up)

Storm And Stress are stepping out and deconstructing what a guitar, bass and drums are capable of. Ian Williams of the disciplined prog-heavy outfit Don Caballero takes complex math-rock song structures apart and puts them back together with mismatched parts and missing screws. Beefheartian free-jazz drums fall down stairs. Guitars are plucked and strangled. Tentative vocals mumbling absurd William Burroughs cut-up lyrics. The bass eschews its traditional role of rhythm keeper and merely calms the proceedings with tones and colors. The album is more quiet than noisy, and could almost be relaxing if it weren't for the unsettling feeling it provokes, as if you are suffering from heatstroke and hallucinations in the desert.
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Storm And Stress - Under Thunder and Fluorescent Lights

1. Sky's the Ground, The Bombs Are Plants, And We're the Sun, Love, The
2. Address That Was to Skip Ahead the Gallop of It's Own Sperm and Eggs and Wait For Itself: Letter...
3. Meet Me at the Space They Stare at Leaving Their Seat During the Show
4. It Takes a Million Years to Become Diamonds So Let's Just Burn Like Coal Until the Sky's Black
5. 1st. Our Lady of the Burning Thorns, The
6. O, When My Lady Comes
7. 2nd, The
8. Third and Youngest, Unnamed, And
9. Forever, Like Anti-Oxidants (Listen to the Sounds Our Cells Make)
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